Spidey 3 Inconsistancies

[evilgrins]

8:40 PM 3/26/07 · While it is a given that any movie made from a comic will not be exactly like the source material...it's kind of a thing for me to critique them anyway. It doesn't much matter in the grande scheme of things but as I do it in my head anyway...

...why not share?

This will not be spoiler filled unless you've not seen a trailer or two. Going from what I've seen of the sneak peeks into the 3rd Spidey film, I've noticed a few things that are just a tad off:

• The idea that the symbiote alters the personality of the host was created by the animated series of the 90's. The comics version, the only real alteration to Peter's behavior came from the fact the costume kept jumping on him in his sleep to go on patrols itself. Even though he was asleep, the physical exertion of fighting crime was denying him a full night's sleep for several months and he was agitated like anybody with chronic insomnia would be. Also because the costume, being a symbiote, was feeding on certain chemicals his body produces to a higher degree than he could replenish them.
• Eddie Brock was not a photographer but a writer. During the reign of terror through Manhattan by the so called Sin Eater, Brock had a source that he believed was the killer and put that forth in his articles. When Spidey captured the actual Sin Eater, Brock was listed as a fraud and fired. This was his original reason for hating Spidey.
• Harry Osborne became the 2nd Green Goblin after discovering his father's gear. Unfortunately, his highly unstable mental state, made worse by years of drug addiction, made him highly unstable and he was soon taken down; probably didn't help that he lacked the enhanced physical strength. Ironically, while being treated his psychiatrist discovered about the Goblin paraphenelia and became the 3rd Green Goblin...he didn't do much better.
• The symbiote comes from a species that takes hosts, overwhelms their free will, drains them dry of all vital fluids, and then moves on to find a new host. The symbiote was considered something of an outcast as it wished to exist on a truly symbiotic level and not kill its host. Although...it never revealed to Peter in the time they were together that it was sentient, it informed Brock immediately after they came together.
• Gaining the full knowedge the symbiote possessed after they came together, Brock decided to stalk Peter for months before actually confronting him. He wanted to drag out the torture, kept interfering with Peter behind the scenes, as long as possible but a combination of his own instability and the symbiotes desire for revenge may've made them approach him sooner than originally planned.
• The concept that the Sandman had anything to do with the death of Ben Parker is entirely from the film. It never happened, the guy was strictly a bank robber who accidentally was exposed to high doses of radiation while fleeing the police. Granted, he actually stumbled into what he thought was an abandoned atomic weapons testing area than what he seems to be exposed to in the movie but the principle is kind of the same.
• Not having web shooters, the symbiote creates webs from its own substance. However, unlike the movie version (so far as I can tell) the symbiote could take on any form its wearer visualized, making changing clothes unnecessary as it could literally take on the appearance of any outfit. Similarily the webs were seemingly identical to Spidey's own. The concept of black webbing is an invention of the Ultimate Marvel version.
• While Harry did eventually become unhinged again and Spidey had to take him down, he never went after Spidey for killing his father. The closest such a thing went down was when he was being blackmailed by the Hobgoblin and he donned the Green Goblin outfit again to defend his family. It was an odd battle, Spidey and the Green Goblin fighting side by side against the Hobgoblin and, surprisingly, ultimately it was Harry that defeated the other Goblin. This was years after he'd beaten his drug addiction and regained his sanity.
• There doesn't seem to be an evidence of that foot long tongue Venom is famous for, nor the excessive drool, in the film. However, those came later. Originally he was all big and toothy...the tongue was a later thing possibly from extended symbiosis.
• I'm still a bit uncertain how the symbiote comes to Earth and then onto Peter. Originally Peter's Spidey costume was damaged during the Secret Wars series and he thought the symbiote was from a machine to fix clothing. The animated series of the 90's maintained that John Jameson discovered the symbiote accidentally while extracting an ore sample, it busted free after the space shuttle crashed in downtown Manhattan. These are the only two origins for it that I'm aware of.
• One of the big things they were bopping on was Gwen Stacy being in this movie and, while I'm sure she's in there somewhere, she seems to be very absent from each of the trailers I've seen. She's been in production shots but I haven't seen so much as a hint of her in any of the actual sneak peeks.

That's all I've got for now.